Garment-supporter.



L. H. BAKER.

GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION man JULY 24, 1915.

Patented Sept. 12, 1916.

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GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

Application filed July 24, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LOUIS H.- BAKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Evansville, county of Vanderburg, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment supporters.

My object is to provide an improved garment supporting clamp or fastener adapted for use in any position where such devices are usually utilized, but particularly designed for use as a fastener for Suspender ends, hose supporter ends and in similar relationships and constructed and adapted to directly engage and clamp the garment without resorting to use of buttons and buttonholes and to form a quick attachable and detachable connection for such purposes.

The invention is particularly adapted for use in connection with overalls and trousers and insures a firm gripping action on the waist-band of the trousers or overalls, rendering the use of buttons unnecessary and preventing accidental detachment of the suspenders or shoulder straps from the overalls or trousers.

The invention comprises a body having a nib or tongue projecting angularly thereto, a clamping bail adapted to straddle and hold the garment on the tongue or nib and an improved cranked lever operating device for the bail j ournaled directly to the body, as will appear more fully hereinafter.

I am aware that the invention is susceptible of modification and is not necessarily restricted to those details of form and construction appearing in the drawings and described hereinafter, and I do not, therefore, limit myself to such details except where specified in the claims as the disclosure of the invention is illustrative, rather than restrictive, thereof.

In the accompanying drawingsz'Figure 1 is a side elevation, the supporter being closed, and its manner of use in connection with the waistband of overalls, is shown; Fig. 2, a detail perspective showing the parts when in a position just prior to engaging the garment; and Fig. 3, a detail of the operating and locking lever.

The body 1 is preferably of wire and provided with a cross-piece 2 for the at- Specification of Letters Patent.

'the crank portion 11 of the lever 4.

Patented Sept. 12, 1916.

Serial No. 41,757.

tachment of the suspender end or hose supporter or other garment supporting device equipped with the present invention. The body has inturned portions 3 which constitute a backing or stop for the operating lever 4 when the latter is fully closed. The body has integral bent eyes 5 for the journal portions 6 of the lever 4, whereby the lever is pivotally or swingingly mounted on the body 1. While the parts are inlocked condition when the lever 4 is in the position shown in Fig. 1, such lever may be pressed back until it engages the stop portions 3, especially where the garment is of thin material. The body 1 terminates at its lower end in a nib, tongue or bill 7 formed by bringing the parts of the frame together side by side and disposing them angularly in relation to the plane of the body or frame 1. This nib, tongue or bill is adapted to have the material of the garment 8 pressed down thereover, as shown in Fig. 1. A looking bail 9 has its ends journaled at 10 011 The tip or yoke portion 12 of the bail is adapted to pass over the nib, tongue or bill 7 when the lever 4 is in the position shown in Fig. 2. The yoke portion 12 is preferably contracted or formed of converging parts to exert a drawing or wedging action on the garment 8 in pulling it against the nib, tongue or bill 7 as shown in Fig. 1, when the lever 4 is pressed back.

The garment 8 is first inserted between the bail 9 and the nib, tongue or bill 7 when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 2. The lever 4 is then pressed back to the position shown in Fig. 1, whereupon a tuck or bight of the garment 8 is formed, as shown in Fig. 1. The greater the tension exerted, in opposite directions by the supporter and the garment 8, the tighter will the bight of the garment be made to embrace the nib, tongue or hill 7 By throwing down the lever 4 from the position shown in Fig. 1, the garment can be readily detached.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is z- In a garment supporter, the combination With a body or frame having a narrow tongue projecting angularly therefrom, of a locking crank lever, one end of which is the pivoted end and the finger-hold portions pivoted directly to the body or frame and its other end portion being free and constituting a fingerhold, and a bail pivotally connected to the crank lever intermediate signature.

LOUIS H. BAKER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

thereof, whereby the bail is bodily movable with the locking crank lever, said bail be- 

